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Cultivated by Hand
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Cultivated by Hand

Cultivated by Hand aligns the overlooked history of amateur musicians in the early years of the United States with little-understood practices of music book making. It reveals the pervasiveness of these practices, particularly among women, and their importance for the construction of gender, class, race, and nation.

The Ideal World of Mrs. Widder's Soirée Musicale
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180

The Ideal World of Mrs. Widder's Soirée Musicale

The domestic soirée musicale was a private party at which a formal concert, complete with printed programs, was performed. Amateurs from the hosts' circle performed with professional musicians in a mixture of musical genres including opera, parlour ballads, glees, and instrumental salon music. This book offers a new approach to the concert program as evidence of social, political, and business history. It centres on the earliest known domestic soirée musicale in Ontario, held in 1844, and reconstructs the world of one elite group assembled at the home of a prosperous Toronto land developer. After a historiography of the soirée musicale, chapter 2 considers the process of constructing the ...

Book Review Digest
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2986

Book Review Digest

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Literarische Entwürfe des Konservatismus in England 1790 bis 1805
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 328

Literarische Entwürfe des Konservatismus in England 1790 bis 1805

Der Konservatismus entzieht sich griffigen Definitionen. Pascal Fischer erforscht, wie sich diese Weltanschauung in England um 1800 konstituierte und mit welchen literarischen Strategien sie verbreitet wurde. Ohne den Rang theoretischer Schriften zu negieren, hebt das Buch erstmals die Bedeutung der fiktionalen Literatur für die Ausformung und Popularisierung des Konservatismus hervor. Eine besondere Rolle kommt dem antijakobinischen Roman zu, der jüngst als ein wichtiges Genre der 1790er und 1800er Jahre entdeckt worden ist. Es zeigt sich, dass viele in den Texten vertretene Positionen eine erhebliche Distanz zu gängigen Meinungen über den frühen Konservatismus aufweisen.

Humanities Index
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1558

Humanities Index

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Notes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 916

Notes

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Journal of the American Musicological Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 632

Journal of the American Musicological Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Cumulative Book Index
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2318

The Cumulative Book Index

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1994
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A world list of books in the English language.

Who's who in Australian Libraries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 206
The British National Bibliography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1926

The British National Bibliography

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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